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None of the Firefox Quantum work has looked at power usage, so don't expect any changes on that front.
by mccr8 9y ago
None of the Firefox Quantum work has looked at power usage, so don't expect any changes on that front.
- akerro 9y agoWell... new renderer and JS engine are faster and use less memory, which means less CPU cycles are used for the same thing and less information is stored in RAM, there are improvements for Windows and Linux hardware acceleration. This all summed-up means reduction of power consumption.
- bzbarsky 9y agoThe new style system is faster, but partly due to parallelizing, which doesn't necessarily mean fewer CPU cycles (though _can_ mean more time spent in CPU sleep state). I don't know why you think 57 uses less memory than 56 for the "renderer and JS engine". I don't think it does. In fact, the data shows that it actually uses a bit more than 56, though this obviously depends on workload. (Disclaimer: I work on the Firefox rendering engine and have done some work on the JS engine.)
- hinkley 9y agoIn theory, race to idle might save it. In practice, my fellow web app devs will throw more crap on the web page until things are slow again and only then push back on feature creep from management.
- Starwatcher2001 9y agoThis is mentioned in the release notes: "AMD VP9 hardware video decoder support for improved video playback with lower power consumption"
- tedunangst 9y agoHow many users have AMD laptops?
- skarap 9y ago1
- dralley 9y agoAMD graphics. And since we were talking about Macs, the answer is "a lot"
- revelation 9y agoAnd what is the intersection of "Macs", "AMD graphics" and "battery powered"? Pretty sure it is the empty set.
- stinky613 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro Find in Page "AMD"